FunnyBadger

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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
There's a downside to hypersonic - they are NOT agile especially in terminal guidance so they are primarily/only good for stationary targets. Going so fast carries this cost. The hypersonic weapon win is when you need a short OO
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
They've only been working on this since the 1980s without success. Just review copies of AW&ST from late 1980s.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Most people don't really understand what it is and what kept it going, either technologically or economically or socially. They are happy to enjoy the benefits but plenty of people think that iPhones simply appear at stores ignoring a
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
There's an economic paradox about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
The ideal is "T-shaped skills" - having one area of depth and then many broader and shallower areas of knowledge.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
That's nice except bricks are NOT interchangeable with concrete in 90% of building cases.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
The problem is that "normal international business needs" looks exactly the same as overseas tax havens. Say you want to sell products overseas: well simply operating in your home country isn't sufficient - you MUST have a co
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Photonics doesn't buy you much. The primarily limit on speed in large chips like processors is NOT the transistors but the transmission lines connecting the transistors. And those are already operating at 50%-75% of the speed of ligh
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Go to Taiwan to see how ostracism from the WTO order turns out: hint, Disney et al. copyrights and trademarks are universally used without fear or concern by just about everyone. What can the IP "owners" say: "We're go
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
That's not how must treaties work and certainly not how the NATO treaty is written. Maybe you should read it first.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Possibly but the fact that Turkey has been a NATO member since the 1960s pretty much makes that "wish" irrelevant or at least not ignorable. Seniority does count for something and ignoring it is great way of destroying a organiza
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
It doesn't work with VPN apparently (that's what it told me when I tried). That's not going to cut it for me. There are other ways that don't have that restriction.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Bankruptcy in Japan doesn't work the way it does in the West - it's pretty much a death sentence commercially in Japan. The brand will never be used again and the assets will be liquidated. The loss of face and reputation makes
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
The simple answer: online lacks all the visual and aural feedback mechanisms that are automatic in face-to-face interaction. That radically changes how people act. All the social norms that have 100,000 years of biological and sociological
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Economics is like gravity - what goes up must ALWAYS come down. It's only a matter of time.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
The other issue: security. I got my paranoia from working with military SIGINT - the things we routinely harvested from radio and telephone of the USSR was a major wake-up call.
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
You may want to look up asynchronous logic - it's more complicated that you realize. In fact, you'll quickly understand why 99% of all digital designs use synchronous logic design instead - it has a far smaller gate count to acco
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Sigh. The ignorance. The speed of computers IS NOT LIMITED BY "gate" or "transistor" speed; the speed is primarily limited by transmission line delays across the die and often off the die. You can only improve this by
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
Honestly I always used personal connections - I'm not exactly an extrovert but I'm comfortable talking to just about anyone. Sometimes it's surprising who knows who and the connections are often not what you expected. The ot
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by FunnyBadger 4y ago
I feel prescient. I bought a fully loaded iPod last summer to use in my car. Streaming is NOT an option where I live and I didn't want to pollute my phone with my enormous music collection.